Advanced aircraft cockpit

• US 8,276,845 B2
• Filed: 07/10/2008
• Issued: 10/02/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 07/12/2007
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Airbus Operations (European Aeronautic Defence and Space Company EADS NV)
• Original Assignee: Airbus Operations SAS (Airbus SE)
• Inventors: Orgerie, Jean-Luc, Marquet, Gilles
• Primary Examiner(s): Shaawat, Mussa A
• Application Number:
  US12/668,572
• Publication Number:
  US 20110127380A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,545 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 244/118.5
• CPC Class Codes: B64D 11/0015 Arrangements for entertainment or communications, e.g. radio, television
• CPC Class Codes: B64D 11/00155 Individual entertainment or communication system remote controls therefor, located in or connected to seat components, e.g. to seat back or arm rest
• CPC Class Codes: B64D 11/0689 specially adapted for pilots
• CPC Class Codes: B64D 13/00 Arrangements or adaptations of air-treatment apparatus for aircraft crew or passengers, or freight space , or structural parts of the aircraft treatment rooms with artificial climate for medical purposes A61G10/02; respiratory apparatus in general A62B; for vehicles in general B60H
• CPC Class Codes: B64D 47/02 Arrangements or adaptations of signal or lighting devices

Abstract

An aircraft cockpit that includes comfort and/or security adjustable equipment in which the adjustments are controlled by an adjustment management system so that, by the unique selection of a position desired by the pilot from at least two positions, the adjustment of each of the aforementioned members is modified from a current value to a predetermined value characteristic of the selected position and depending on the pilot. The data characteristic of the members adjustments controlled by the adjustment management system and depending on the pilot are stored in a mobile medium and read by a means for recognizing the aforementioned management system. The adjustments controlled by the adjustment management system can relate to piloting seats, piloting rudder bars, piloting armrests, individual aeration systems and individual lighting systems.

Claims

1. Aircraft cockpit that has at least one adjustable element of one or more of adjustable comfort or safety equipment whose adjustment is modified between two or more values by a pilot, with said values being established in advance depending on personal criteria of said pilot, with the at least one adjustable element being controlled by an adjustment management system,

wherein said adjustment management system has a memory for storing data characteristic of said values established in advance, and has an adjustment change control so that an action by the pilot on said control modifies the adjustment of the at least one adjustable element from a current value to a predetermined value characteristic of a desired adjustment selected by the pilot from among at least two different adjustments, and

wherein the memory stores data characteristic of the adjustment of the elements controlled by the adjustment management system associated with different models of cockpits and in which the adjustment management system has means of selecting data corresponding to at least one of the different models of cockpits.

2. Cockpit according to claim 1 in which the data characteristic of the adjustments of the adjustable elements controlled by the adjustment management system that depend on the pilot are memorized by a ground station) and transmitted by a linkage to means of recognition in said management system.

3. Cockpit according to claim 1 in which the data characteristic of the adjustments of the elements controlled by the adjustment management system and that depend on the pilot are memorized in a mobile medium and are read by means of recognition in said management system.

4. Cockpit according to claim 3 in which the mobile medium also has means of pilot authentication.

5. Cockpit according to claim 2 in which the data characteristic of the adjustments of the elements controlled by the adjustment management system correspond for each adjustment that can be selected by the pilot to values measured by sensors when the adjustment was made manually in advance.

6. Cockpit according to claim 1 that has a selector for a desired adjustment from among two or more adjustments, on which a control action must be maintained for the duration of the adjustment modifications performed by the adjustment management system.

7. Cockpit according to claim 1 in which the at least one adjustable element is associated with a manual control for modifying the adjustment independently of the adjustment management system.

8. Cockpit according to claim 1 in which the adjustment management system controls one or more of an:

adjustment of a longitudinal position of a pilot'"'"'s seat cushion of a pilot'"'"'s seat;

adjustment of a transverse position of a seat cushion of a pilot'"'"'s seat;

adjustment of a height position above a floor pane of the cockpit of a pilot'"'"'s seat cushion of a pilot'"'"'s seat;

adjustment of a position of a flight control stick;

adjustment of a height position and/or inclination of a pilot'"'"'s armrest;

adjustment of the inclination of a back rest of a pilot'"'"'s seat and/or of a height position;

adjustment of the depth position of a lumbar support of the back rest;

adjustment of one, two, or more individual ventilators in orientation in or flow rate;

adjustment of an air temperature;

or

adjustment of one, two, or more individual lights in orientation in or luminous intensity.